LibriVox recording of Hercules by Georg Friedrich Händel; Thomas Broughton.
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Hercules is an English Oratorio composed by Georg Friedrich Händel to a libretto by the Reverend Thomas Broughton. It was first performed at the King's Theatre in London on 5th of January 1745.

It is based on the story of Hercules and Deianira, as it is related by Ovid, in the Ninth Book of his Metamorpheses; and the same subject, as it is treated by Sophocles, in his tragedy The Trachinians.

(Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Librettist)

Cast List

Hercules: Algy Pug
Deianira: WendyKatzHiller
Hyllus: Greg Giordano
Iole: ShrimpPhish
Lichas: Brian Fullen
Priest of Jupiter: Larry Wilson
Trachinian: Agnes Robert Behr
Chorus/Narration: Alan Mapstone

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